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• Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret.
  Acta eruditorum

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Keys, Secret, Problem

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• That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

  E. O. Wilson

  Evolution, Mystery, Accounts

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.76, Vintage

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• Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you think, 'I trust this series. I would take candy from this series. I would get in a car with this series.' But I'm going to warn you, this series is out to get you. Always remember: The harmonic series diverges. Never forget it."

  Alexandre Borovik

  Education, Math, Thinking

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• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  Galileo Galilei

  Education, Squares, Numbers

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.

  Joseph Fourier

  Art, Law, Progress

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• The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Firsts, Stories

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• If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Education, Numbers, Typewriters

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile”, p.1504, Random House

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• Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Three, Statistics

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• Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics, Chance

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• In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

  Christine Sneed

  Thinking, Long, Ordinary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

  Anya Kamenetz

  Trying, Students, Arguing

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• Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Reality, House

  H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix

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• With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

  Richard Courant

  Men, Two, Sometimes

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• These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

  Adrien-Marie Legendre

  Beautiful, Mean, Differences

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• The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Truth, Philosophical

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• The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

  Francois Arago

  Science, Degrees, Limits

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.235

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• In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

  Gayle Forman

  Feelings, Absence, Persons

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.53, Penguin

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• One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."

  Judith Butler

  Smart, Exercise, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

  Giuseppe Peano

  Numbers, Operations, Entity

  Giuseppe Peano (2013). “Geometric Calculus: According to the Ausdehnungslehre of H. Grassmann”, p.17, Springer Science & Business Media

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Wise, Perfect

  Leonhard Euler, C. Truesdell (1980). “The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI”, p.200, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

  Stephen Covey

  Victory, Algebra

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

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• If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

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• Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

  John Banville

  Math, Null, Mixtures

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• The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.

  George Polya

  Giving, Pudding, Inventory

  "How to Solve It" by George Polya, Expanded Princeton Science Library Edition, (p. 219), 2004.

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